The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-06
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Local and state Notes.

railway, will leave Tor Caliornls to-niRn@
II unite probable that arrangements will be
made by which the Traders Dispatch will oper-
ate entirely over the Vandaila
Superintendents Evan and Burrows. of the
Bee-line went to Cleveland last evening for q
conference with the general manager.
Blue-river Park on the c., H. e. l., has been
opened for picnics only sixteen days. and al
ready fifteen parties have been to the ground.
In the month of june there were handled at
The Union Depot 80, POP pieces of baggage. Of
this number 9. 764 were checked out from lndl-
snapolis proper
The "Y," by which the Indianapolis & Vim
cennes road connects with the Bolt road. has
been completed, and the Union tracks have been
relieved of its freight trains
Albert s. White, assistant general freight
agent of the l. g. St L., in the city yester-
lay. He reports that the traffic connection with
the O.. l.. st. L. & G. is proving valuable one
E. b. Thomas. general manager of the Rich
nond e. Danville system of roads. spent the
Fourth in Cleveland. He called at the Bee-line
offices and said be was glad to note the roads
prosperity.
the coal traffic of the I. & V. now exceeds
that of the T. ii. & l. road. Within the past
week the l. e. v. has brought in as high as fifty
Eve carloads of coal a day, against thirty to
forty on the t. Ii. & /.
The Wabash Western restored rates oct OF
Chicago yesterday, according to agreement In
freight circles the action in the beginning was
looked upon as very discreditable, as the road
had no line of its own into that place.
The Chicago, milwaukee d St. fdul Foau Is III
the market for $50 box cars and has asked sew
eral of the car-works in this State to bid on
them, but they are now SO full OF work mat
they dare not contract to build more at present.
Superintendent Nelson, of the G., ID. q d.
and of the Vandalia, has already made himself
popular with the men on the Vandalia, and they
are taking hold with much interest as when
the road under the control OF their warm
friend, William r. Mckeen-
r. r Morris has been appointed special agent
of the accounting department. OF the Pennsyl-
vana Company, very Important position. MT.
Morris is an Indiana boy, and his numerous
friends will be cratifed 20 know the management
consider him SO trustworthy.
The West Shore fastfreight line management
is still working to secure some route by which
they can do Indianapolis business proper They
still retain their agent here and pay him
promptly, which indicates they are sanguine
that in due time their line will again run in here.
Railroad officials in this section not favor
ably impressed with the call OF a meeting OF the
Central Traffic Association at Niagara Falls on
the 18th OF this month Chicago is about as far
as they wish to GO, and Commissioner Blanchard
need not be disappointed IL he lS snort OF
quorum on the 18th.
A j. Elliott. joint city car tracer, is preparing
anew list showing the number Of switches and
their capacity in and about Indianapolis which
lead to business establishments. His list will
show that there 19S switches, larger num-
Der than can be found at any commercial center
In the United States.
Receiver McNulta, of the Wabash. has prom
Wabash tickets by ST. Louis scalpers through
connivance with some of the officials of the road.
IL ne gives the matter a thorough investigation
he will find that the scalpers, by some means,
get hold of and handle more tickets reading over
the Wabash than over any other line
General Ticket Agent Donough. at the Union
Depot, says that during the twenty-five years he
has been in that Office he never knew the Fourth
of July travel to have been heavy this
year On Saturday, Sunday and Monday the
sales of tickets were so enormous that be took
tn oh Aau hmm md of Gily var
alone and hundreds of dollars In gold and in bills.
The officers Of the Indianapolis & Vincennes
road state that il was the new switching engine
just received by the c.. st. L. & P. road which
broke the stringers to the bridge over White
river, not the picnic train. This. they claim,
went safely over, and the switching engine,
which has 90 900 pounds weight on the drivers,
and which passed over the bridge after the pic
mic train, weakened the bridge.
When the indianapolis car works complete tho
FIVE hundred coal cars it is now building for the
c.. II. e. d. road work will be commenced
1900 il has contracted to buud for the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. The box ears
are to be equipped with the Wagner car-door.
and have carrying capacity OF 10000 pounds.
The stock cars are to be thirty-four feet long,
and the coal cars are to have q carrying capacity
of so, 600 pounds.
The fact that the Baltimore & Ohio express
did not go on the VandalIa the LIST of July. a
had been the understanding, has led to consider
able comment, and inquiry has brought to light
tho fact that the Ives Staynor syndicate take
panies. In the Baltimore 4 Ohio railroad
deal is carried out it is thought that the Balti-
more q Ohio express lines will be turned over to
the Adams Express Company
The roads again complaining that shippers
slow in loading cars after ordering them.
and that consiRnees are still slower in unloading
them. If every person interested would adopt
the suggestion In the Railway Age a much
smaller number of cars would do the transporta-
ton Of this country. It is: LOAD your
promptly; forward them to destination speedily;
h~1n bar nj lad Tynrn adj ofn 0nA ro1o nod
them as quick rs possible, and repeat this con-
tinuously." Such a course would undoubtedly
produce good results.
Receiver McNulta, of the Wabash road proper,
has completed the reorganization of his freight
department.. and makes the following announce
ment: Milton knight, having rendered his
resignation rs general freight agent. to accept
similar position with another road, the same has
been accepted. Samuel b. knight has been
pointed general freight agent Frank H.
Tibbits has been appointed assistant
ing has been appointed division freight agent. in
place of S. B. Knight, with headquarters at De-
catur I'LL.
It could hardly be expected that William r.
McKeen, in selling the Terre Haute 81 Indian
apolis road, could please all who were holders of
the stock. but when he. after selling the road
takes the stock of parties at 1925 per share for
which they paid but par. there would seem to be
but little room for complaint Mr.. McKeen held
the controlling stock and sold it at price salts
factory to himself. and if he got $3.50 per share
for his stock il is no reason that he should de-
mand from the purchasing syndicate that figure
for stock held by outsiders, even on the ground
of friendship The parties who unloaded their
stock at $l25 per share may think themselves
fortunate and gratefully remember Mr.. McKeen
for helping them TO sell at that good figure.
The management of the steel rail mill is much
encouraged. The mill started mp yesterday
morning and through the day without
break. The company is now rolling 1,5OO tons
for the Mackey roads. Three hundred tons
delivered last week and 300 more will
he General Manager
gan hopes that there will be more trouble,
the demand for their rails is good and he is
anxious to get them on the market and let rail-
road men know what an excellent quality of
rail this mill makes. Mr.. Morgan states that
within the last two weeks they have been asked
to furnish 90 900 tons of rails but have
made but few contracts, wishing to get the mill
in number running order before making
much noise While it seems that the Indianap
oils mill has been rather slow IN starting up
IL has been more than mills usually are,
IL is nuita a task TO GET such noxerful and heavy